UNITED NATIONS – North Korea is accusing the United States of targeting it with anthrax and wants the U.N. Security Council to look into it. A letter from North Korea’s U.N. ambassador to the council president and the U.N. chief, made public Friday, claims that the U.S. “possesses deadly weapons …
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s police force is offering a rare reward for information leading to the capture of a man suspected in a quadruple killing. In a Sunday statement, the Jamaica Constabulary Force identified the suspect as Anward Anthony Hinds. They say he is a primary suspect in a May …
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VIENNA – An Austrian court has found nine people guilty of trying to join Islamic extremists in Syria and a 10th of planning to drive them there and sentenced them to prison terms of between one and three years. The nine men and one woman were stopped last year before …
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Lawyers for a former leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia are urging the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to drop the case against him because he is terminally ill with brain cancer. In an urgent motion released Thursday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, …
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MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities are investigating the killing of a journalist in the southeastern state of Tabasco. The Tabasco prosecutor’s office says Ismael Diaz Lopez was stabbed to death Thursday in Teapa, south of the state capital of Villahermosa. It reports via Twitter that the strongest line of investigation …
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s intelligence service says a Pakistani intelligence officer helped the Taliban carry out an attack on parliament earlier this week. Afghan intelligence services spokesman Hassib Sediqqi said Wednesday that the officer in Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence helped the Haqqani network carry out the attack outside parliament in Kabul, …
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ISLAMABAD – A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has warned it will target the country’s main electrical company if it does not end power outages in the country’s south — where an intense heat wave has killed 860 people in the past week. Mohammad Khurasani, in a statement released Friday, …
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CALAIS, France – French ferry workers angry over possible job losses are disrupting the port of Calais and traffic across the English Channel. The workers for MyFerryLink resumed their protest Monday angered by a court ruling about the future of the company. Their new protest blocked boats from leaving the …
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BEIRUT – Syria’s state TV says government forces have retaken a neighborhood from Islamic State fighters in a northeastern city, days after it was captured by the extremists. The IS group attacked several government-held southern neighborhoods of the city of Hassakeh last week. The fighting has continued since then, leaving …
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GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala’s constitutional court has revived a process that could strip President Otto Perez Molina of immunity from prosecution amid growing corruption scandals. Court President Gloria Porras says an injunction suspending the process last month was lifted Wednesday after the court considered Perez Molina’s petition. The ruling is …
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